Milk

So soon after California flubbed Proposition 8 comes Milk. Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) is the films protagonist, based on the real Harvey Milk who ran for city supervisor in San Fransisco multiple times during the 70s. While biopics on "important" figures of history often over-sell themselves on their, well, important features (I'm looking at you A Beautiful Mind), Milk does not. Sure, Milk was an advocate, a fighter, a champion for gay rights, but he also has problems. He does not always win, he lives with men who are mentally disturbed, or actually just one, but you get it. Either way, Harvey Milk did what he did and did it well. Director Gus Van Sant shoots up close and personal, right up to the brutal assassination of Milk himself, but his work is impeccable. A worthy tribute to Milk and his causes, still being fought for today.

Genre - Biopic/Drama (3.25)

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